Boltby Bash - photo by Mick Kirkman

Boltby Bash Enduro Tickets Go On Sale Friday 24th

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This Friday, tickets go live for the Boltby Bash, an enduro race on the North Yorkshire Moors. Here’s a rather eerie drone video of people exploring sections of stage 1:

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Tickets go live on the Boltby Bash website at 20:00 on Friday.

“The Boltby Bash is an all-inclusive enduro event, designed to please both gravity and cross country mountain bike riders”

The Boltby Bash Enduro is a 2-day mountain bike event set in the idyllic North Yorkshire Moors.

Day 1: Practice day for the main event on Sunday.
Day 2: Main event. Enduro: 30-35 kms with 5 timed stages. The Sportive is on the same course.
Enduro: £50 MTB Sportive: £40

Boltby Bash - photo by Mick Kirkman
Taking flight, or descending from on high in a sunbeam? (photo by Mick Kirkman).

Full release:

“THE BOLTBY BASH ENDURO IS BACK

“A Short history of Boltby Bash: being one of the first and biggest mountain bike xc races back in the early nineties! with Steve Peat and co cutting their teeth on it.

“Despite lots of efforts by other organisers to get access and bring the Boltby Bash back, the only way was for two MTB mates, one the local blacksmith who knows all the private landowners and all the local trails, and the other who also knows every route in area and came up with the idea for the route. The Boltby Bash Enduro was born; 250 racers first year, 500 last year, and gaining in popularity as a classic Enduro experience.

“The Boltby Bash Enduro www.boltbybashenduro.com May 19-20 th 2018 is a 2-day mountain bike event set in the idyllic North Yorkshire Moors with five stages; “wild, natural trails” on private land, with everything from flowing loam to technical rock. The weekend has a festival feel, with live music, bar and food with the finest panoramic views that the North Yorkshire Moors National Park has to offer.”

Boltby Bash - photo by Mick Kirkman
Boltby Bash (photo by Mick Kirkman)

David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly. Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.

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